Yeah... My thoughts exactly 😂 "I'm lazy and now I will sew by hand 100 km hem" I would never do that! Changing the foot is way faster in my opinion. Love your videos ❣️
Thanks to the clarity of your detailed directions, I have drafted a kimono bodice block from a block that I know will fit me . I am so inspired by your videoes and now I am confident to design my own dresses from a bodice block Thank you from UK
The whole video was perfectly coherent, articulate & understandable. ( I don't think you need to worry about how your videos will turn out....... they're always excellent. All of them. )
I, erm, “third” this! I was just thinking if I knew how to make a sloper/basic block (and what the heck is the difference? Ease??) then I could probably manage drafting my own patterns (following your videos...). Your videos about changing patterns are the first that made me feel it’s doable! Also, if I could make a basic block, I would never have to worry about doing a full bust adjustment on EVERY DAMN THING.
I was just about to add the same! I have found a video that shows how but the bust appears higher than the armhole and mine certainty arn't 😂 yours looks much more human! Please show us how you made it xx
I am planning to do so, I am just struggling with how to without plagiarizing the book I usually use myself to do so. Basically I follow the directions of my pattern drafting book to make slopers/blocks, so in showing you all how to make one, I would be outlining the same directions I follow from the book, which are not my own, but that of the book's authors. I can't quite work out how to navigate that, but I'll do it, I just hope showing the book is considered by the author/publishers as more of an endorsement/advertisement for buying the book rather than me ripping them off!
TheClosetHistorian You could write to the publisher and ask - although most publishers or book web pages now how a “how to cite” section. I wpuld think if you put the name of the book (+ maybe a URL of where it can be bought) in the description, and you also explicitly mention/recommend the book in your video, you should be fine. But it never hurts to ask (or google) to be sure, of course. It’s been a while since college, and RUclips was not what it is today, so that’s all I remember from Academic Writing 101: cite your sources. 😂
I love seeing how you modify your basic block! It's so cool how the basic shape can be adjusted endlessly without having to drape or flat draft a whole new pattern from scratch. Love love LOVE how the dress turned out!!
This is my absolute favourite so far. Your explaining on the pattern drafting was amazing and informative. You have given me more and more confidence and skills to tackle my own pattern changes. Please continue to do more and more of these videos. Thank you again.
LOVE the dress. And even tho your video stopped, loved seeing your cat. Your instructions are outstanding as always. Thank you for all you do and your hard work to show us that we can do it too!
This is what I’ve taught my coworkers to think of as “lazy for good”. Does it save time without diminishing quality/durability? Great! Be lazy. Does it leave you more energy and patience for the things that really do require your effort? Great! Be lazy. And if you can teach someone an alternative way of doing something, that will make it so they actually do something they wouldn’t otherwise bother to do, that’s an achievement.
Love this series! I just got rid of a gigantic stack of Burda magazines....collected over 20 or so years. Part of my pre-moving decluttering. Will have to make do without a sewing room in the future and decided to take the plunge and rely solely on drafting/draping in the future. Which I wanted to do for a long time....but of course, if you have so many ready made patterns to choose from, it’s hard to not take the easy way out and just use a pattern. So you definitely have my full attention, when it comes to pattern manipulation 🙂
Rara, I always hated the flimsy tissue paper of commercial patterns - seemed like you could only use once and it would be almost unusable for the next time.
Sarah Chalmers You clearly aren’t familiar with the Burda magazine, are you? 😄 Their pattern sheets look like this and are dreaded by everyone, who didn’t grew up with them, like I did: images.app.goo.gl/SNEhfhShSde5fxFc8 So you gotta copy the whole shebang on a pattern paper of your choice anyway...I always used very sturdy translucent architects paper. But you get dozens of design with every issue...for the price of one conventional pattern, so it’s an amazing deal, if you sew a lot.
I absolutely love this style. The gathered details may be a bit "camouflaged" in the fabric print but they still add to the details of the finished dress. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these videos.
Thank you! Your explanation of how to construct a kimono sleeve from a bodice block finally helped to connect the dots on how to do a small bust adjustment on that kind of sleeved bodice. Despite repeated searches, I've never been able to find a website that adequately explains it. Taking everything a little bit backwards, the bust dart is moved to the armscye, adding width to the sleeve at the bodice. To do a small bust adjustment then, one would have to reduce that same sleeve width all the way into the bodice, changing the angle of the side seam under the armpit at the same time to come inward a bit.
Great work!! I feel like I really learned a lot, your explanations made perfect sense and it was awesome to see how you can change a basic sloper into the perfect little 40s dress without shelling out bigtime for a teeny tiny little pattern that I couldn't dream of fitting into. I am excited to see what you are going to come up with next
I love that dress! Please keep on making long videos with as many details as you able. I learn new things each time I watch them. Plus you inspire me to try sewing that is "above my pay grade"
When I saw the new upload, I squealed because not only do I absolutely love your videos, but your sewing videos take the cake, and I find I’m always learning something new. I never knew it was so easy to make a kimono/dolman-sleeve. The finished dress was gorgeous!
Yaaaas, this dress is exquisite! Thank you for another full sewing video! I love the process from basic block to unique design. You make it look so approachable. I'm definitely going to have to work on making my own slope ♥️
Greta pattern and as always I love your detailed instructions, I NEED this as an inexperienced sewer. LOVE this pattern and am looking forward to making this for Summer, just with a longer sleeve to not have my pensioner arms on show- distracting many including myself 🤣
Seeing you draft the pattern and then the finished dress really helped my understanding the slash and pivot. I only read about how but didn't get the why. Pretty dress. I love prints. 😊
I love the drafting explanation. Even though you call your ziper sewing technique lazy, I think is very clever, especially to avoid using the dreadful invisible zipers...
Oh geez, I'm so lost, but you are AMAZING! I am a seamstress, but draft patterns, oh hell no! You have so much talent, love watching you create! Beautiful, just beautiful!
Your vintage sewing diaries are great!!! This is no exception! I really enjoyed it 😊🤩😍 I love that you take us through the whole drafting and sewing process. Very inspiring 🤩Thank you so much. The end result is beautiful, and I love the bold jungle print!!! 🌺🌿🌴🌸 I hope you find time for more of these kinds of videos in the future... 🧵
Gorgeous! I’ve been binge watching your every process. I need the inspiration to start on my projects and you have been my life saver- thank you for your fantastic videos! You do a great job!
Do i ever like that all in one sleeve. I have many Japanese sewing book patterns that seem to usually use this sleeve. I love it. I also want to start drafting up my bodice block to my own measurements and make my own designs, back to school this week, i might take a go at it ! Thanks for your amazing inspiration! ❤️
'do our slashing and spreading' said the serial killer duo. I may have been watching too much Criminal Minds. You are fabulously interesting and informative and watching your lovely self talk through things makes me feel like I am Learning All The Things about patterns that I need as a vintage leaning, large boobed woman.
I love these videos so much. I think they're so informative and it's so exciting to see how you change standard pieces and make them so interesting! I like it when you say we, it makes me feel like the audience is part of the journey! And if I ever decide to follow your work and make my own, then we will be doing it with you :)
Another well thought out, articulate tutorial chica! Always a joy to watch someone work on a project that they clearly love doing! Great fabric for this dress too! Thanks for sharing! X
I love these videos so much! Thank you so much for filming your process. They are so inspirational and motivate me to get more experienced in sewing. I just love all how authentic your creations look and I would wear every one of them.
The dress is awesome just as the green one is too. Must talk about your make up. Holy smokes, so lovely. Makes your hair and eyes look so brown. I have green eyes and they are pretty light so I could never pull of such a bright style. You look gorgeous.
Thank you! Light green eyes sound gorgeous to me! Mine are quite hazel close up, it depends on the colors around them, when I cry and my eyes are all red they can look quite green.
Your skills with make up is tremendous. I know you say you're just playing around but skills girl. I'm old so i play it safe. I'm a purple shade girl. I do love red lips and nails
Fantastic video. Mind you you may as well have been explaining how to build a space station as a pattern to me, but the end product is beautiful. I got lost at the moving of the darts lol!!!!
Thank you! Mostly because both seem to be equally as common in vintage designs, and I found this quicker. I'm not opposed to doing pleats in a similar design sometime.
I’ve been binge watching and loving them all. Your sewing skills are fabulous. You are such a pretty young woman and the vintage type clothing suits you to a T.
Gorgeous makeup as always! Love watching how you pattern draft, reminding me how to do it, many years since my fashion degree lol Fab vid as always!! Jxx
The fit is amaaaaazing! Also, the pattern drafting videos are really helpful, actually! I'd love a video about the differences between a slope and a basic block, and how to make them!
Thank you! The main difference between a sloper and a basic bodice block (I use the terms pretty interchangeably its true) is that a true sloper does not include any ease or seam allowance, it is literally supposed to be an exact "second skin" copy of the body or dress form. The block is different because some ease and the seam allowances are included instead. So that's the main difference as far as I know!
love the finished project, Bianca! Your directions are so clear and easy to follow. You are really inspiring me to make a block pattern and start drafting my own styles. Thank you
I love the sleeve treatment. Unfortunately my days of short sleeves are over. Batwing, however, .....just draw around my arms and hey presto! (Bingo wings!)
Love seeing your thought process - makes me wish I had taken that flat pattern drafting class in collage when I had the chance. Especially like the idea of the sash not being part of/sewn into the waist seam - allows you to make another in a coordinating color, or use a different color belt. Pure genius lady! Hmmmm - now I want to play with something that could make it truly removable - but I digress... Great job, beautiful dress! Thank you for the inspiration! BTW - Congrats on >15K subscribers!! ❤️
Thank you Rose! I wish I had gotten a business degree and taken pattern drafting as an elective instead of getting a fashion degree...but alas I cannot go back!
I loved watching you design and sew this dress. I especially loved the cat substitute, that was perfect. Now I’m heading up to my own sewing room feeling inspired by you. Aloha!
I’m new to your channel and have bing watched tons of your videos. I love your style and you have inspired me to get back to my sewing room and make all the things! Thank you for sharing with us all.
This was a fantastic video as always. Super informative and such a lovely dress! I'm so glad that you're doing more video's like this as they are some of my favorite to watch. :)
YAY thank you for this! i recently stumbled on a hoard of tropical print rayon challis fabrics from the 90s that my grandma just stored and never used, so i'll try and use this as a reference for my much less expert attempts at putting together some 40s dresses. i've recently been in love with this one dress virginia mayo wears in "the best years of our lives" so that will be my first try (it's a solid fabric there but would be amazing in a print too, check it out!). also i'm loving your eyeshadow and lipstick here! it comes together as such a fun vintage look
Would you be willing to show how you do your measuring and pattern drafting for your basic patterns that you use to create your different dress looks? I like the way you do your sewing videos, very user friendly and I can understand everything the way you explain it.
Thank you! I am trying to work out exactly how to do a basic block/sloper drafting tutorial without completely plagiarizing the book I myself use to do so. I always follow the directions from my favorite pattern drafting book, Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong, to draft my blocks. I suppose I will just frame it as a how-to-follow her instructions, almost like trying a tutorial or recipe, something in that line.
Love your pattern manipulation videos! Thank you! The dress looks lovely on you, but I agree that the design is lost in the pattern of the fabric. More videos please!☺
Your drawing is so cute (I cannot draw, so I'm always in awe lol). What are the odds that I drafted and am working on a dolman sleeve, too?! I love love love the shoulder gathers and the skirt, so cute!!
Lilian Miramontes, Jr. Ooooh yes, I second that! I love the belted safari-style ones, and I always have trouble finding things like that. I work in different locations, some of which have no a/c, so I am always looking for short-sleeved jackets in a linen mix to wear to work in summer. It would be glorious if I could make them myself, because it's so hard to find things to fit just so.
I'm doing one for my last August project (the "your" choice one I mentioned in my planning video) so no worries, it is coming! It will require a few extra steps, that pattern, having to create the princess seam and such, but it is on the schedule!
Lazy? Nope. You’re very meticulous! Lazy is what I’d do: sketch out the pattern pieces directly on the pattern, cut, sew! That’s if it’s for myself of course, when I designed I did actually make “real” pattern pieces. You would laugh at all the clothing I’ve made this way, now used as pattern pieces after they “died”😆! You did a beautiful job, it came out perfect & looks gorgeous! Have a lovely weekend! Jet 🧡🎸🎶⚡️
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It just think it is amazing how you keep calling yourself lazy while making a whole dress from scratch... love your video as usual
Thank you Pamela!
I agree, I can barely get a pair of pants hemmed in a timely manor let alone cut out the dress I've had the pattern and fabric sitting for months....
Ive developed a fabric hoard since i cant bring myself to sew a dress. But i want to use the fabric for dresses.
Yeah... My thoughts exactly 😂 "I'm lazy and now I will sew by hand 100 km hem"
I would never do that! Changing the foot is way faster in my opinion. Love your videos ❣️
"Efficient use of energy" would be more accurate than lazy!
I love when you say, "And by we, I mean me," whenever you're talking about doing things lol.
it's the royal We, of course!
I’m a teacher, and I used to be a coach, and I used to say “when I say WE are going to work hard today, I mean YOU are going to work hard today!”
Or its We, as cats always are included, even if they are just sleeping near by.
Thanks to the clarity of your detailed directions, I have drafted a kimono bodice block from a block that I know will fit me . I am so inspired by your videoes and now I am confident to design my own dresses from a bodice block Thank you from UK
This makes me so glad to hear Valerie! Thank you! ❤
The whole video was perfectly coherent, articulate & understandable. ( I don't think you need to worry about how your videos will turn out....... they're always excellent. All of them. )
Aw thank you!
Would you do a video on making the original pattern block? I love how you explain it all!!
I, erm, “third” this! I was just thinking if I knew how to make a sloper/basic block (and what the heck is the difference? Ease??) then I could probably manage drafting my own patterns (following your videos...). Your videos about changing patterns are the first that made me feel it’s doable!
Also, if I could make a basic block, I would never have to worry about doing a full bust adjustment on EVERY DAMN THING.
I also would be interested in a video of making the basic patterns please. You do such a great job explaining👍🏻👍🏻
I was just about to add the same! I have found a video that shows how but the bust appears higher than the armhole and mine certainty arn't 😂 yours looks much more human! Please show us how you made it xx
I am planning to do so, I am just struggling with how to without plagiarizing the book I usually use myself to do so. Basically I follow the directions of my pattern drafting book to make slopers/blocks, so in showing you all how to make one, I would be outlining the same directions I follow from the book, which are not my own, but that of the book's authors. I can't quite work out how to navigate that, but I'll do it, I just hope showing the book is considered by the author/publishers as more of an endorsement/advertisement for buying the book rather than me ripping them off!
TheClosetHistorian You could write to the publisher and ask - although most publishers or book web pages now how a “how to cite” section. I wpuld think if you put the name of the book (+ maybe a URL of where it can be bought) in the description, and you also explicitly mention/recommend the book in your video, you should be fine. But it never hurts to ask (or google) to be sure, of course.
It’s been a while since college, and RUclips was not what it is today, so that’s all I remember from Academic Writing 101: cite your sources. 😂
I love seeing how you modify your basic block! It's so cool how the basic shape can be adjusted endlessly without having to drape or flat draft a whole new pattern from scratch. Love love LOVE how the dress turned out!!
Thank you! That is why I love drafting like this, everything always fits!
the eye look !!! omg iconic
Thank you!
yeah! Dress engineering video! The patterning process is so cool.
Yeah.... Me too. All this geometry is so unexpected for a non-sewer. Engineer indeed! Love it.
Thank you!
Very pretty. Fits great on you. Great choice of fabric and print.
Thank you!
I’ve really learned a lot during these last few sewing videos. Thanks
Thank you Raquel!
This is my absolute favourite so far. Your explaining on the pattern drafting was amazing and informative. You have given me more and more confidence and skills to tackle my own pattern changes. Please continue to do more and more of these videos. Thank you again.
Thank you Carmen! More are planned I assure you!
LOVE the dress. And even tho your video stopped, loved seeing your cat. Your instructions are outstanding as always. Thank you for all you do and your hard work to show us that we can do it too!
This is what I’ve taught my coworkers to think of as “lazy for good”.
Does it save time without diminishing quality/durability? Great! Be lazy.
Does it leave you more energy and patience for the things that really do require your effort? Great! Be lazy.
And if you can teach someone an alternative way of doing something, that will make it so they actually do something they wouldn’t otherwise bother to do, that’s an achievement.
Love this series!
I just got rid of a gigantic stack of Burda magazines....collected over 20 or so years. Part of my pre-moving decluttering. Will have to make do without a sewing room in the future and decided to take the plunge and rely solely on drafting/draping in the future. Which I wanted to do for a long time....but of course, if you have so many ready made patterns to choose from, it’s hard to not take the easy way out and just use a pattern.
So you definitely have my full attention, when it comes to pattern manipulation 🙂
Rara, I always hated the flimsy tissue paper of commercial patterns - seemed like you could only use once and it would be almost unusable for the next time.
Sarah Chalmers
You clearly aren’t familiar with the Burda magazine, are you? 😄
Their pattern sheets look like this and are dreaded by everyone, who didn’t grew up with them, like I did:
images.app.goo.gl/SNEhfhShSde5fxFc8
So you gotta copy the whole shebang on a pattern paper of your choice anyway...I always used very sturdy translucent architects paper.
But you get dozens of design with every issue...for the price of one conventional pattern, so it’s an amazing deal, if you sew a lot.
Thank you Rara!
I absolutely love this style. The gathered details may be a bit "camouflaged" in the fabric print but they still add to the details of the finished dress.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these videos.
Thank you!
Thank you! Your explanation of how to construct a kimono sleeve from a bodice block finally helped to connect the dots on how to do a small bust adjustment on that kind of sleeved bodice. Despite repeated searches, I've never been able to find a website that adequately explains it. Taking everything a little bit backwards, the bust dart is moved to the armscye, adding width to the sleeve at the bodice. To do a small bust adjustment then, one would have to reduce that same sleeve width all the way into the bodice, changing the angle of the side seam under the armpit at the same time to come inward a bit.
Gorgeous as always! And you get to use all those vibrant colors in accessories and makeup-how fun!
Thank you!
Great work!! I feel like I really learned a lot, your explanations made perfect sense and it was awesome to see how you can change a basic sloper into the perfect little 40s dress without shelling out bigtime for a teeny tiny little pattern that I couldn't dream of fitting into. I am excited to see what you are going to come up with next
Thank you Trish! I always figure it's actually easier to make a design from scratch than learn how to size up patterns! ;)
I love that dress! Please keep on making long videos with as many details as you able. I learn new things each time I watch them. Plus you inspire me to try sewing that is "above my pay grade"
Thank you Marie!
When I saw the new upload, I squealed because not only do I absolutely love your videos, but your sewing videos take the cake, and I find I’m always learning something new. I never knew it was so easy to make a kimono/dolman-sleeve. The finished dress was gorgeous!
Thank you! I'm so glad people are enjoying the sewing :)
Thank you for the vocab! I'm putting a video up on Monday with too many instances of "this foldy thing" and "the scraggly bit"
I mean that vocab works too ;)
Yaaaas, this dress is exquisite! Thank you for another full sewing video! I love the process from basic block to unique design. You make it look so approachable. I'm definitely going to have to work on making my own slope ♥️
Thank you Alana!
Beautiful end result. Both the cut and the fabric look amazing on you 👍
Thank you Rara!
Oh my! You look absolutely gorgeous in that dress! Stunning! The print works both for the dress shape and for you! What a lady!
Thank you!
Greta pattern and as always I love your detailed instructions, I NEED this as an inexperienced sewer. LOVE this pattern and am looking forward to making this for Summer, just with a longer sleeve to not have my pensioner arms on show- distracting many including myself 🤣
Love the high V neckline. So vintage.
Thank you Debbie!
Seeing you draft the pattern and then the finished dress really helped my understanding the slash and pivot. I only read about how but didn't get the why. Pretty dress. I love prints. 😊
Thank you! Me too, prints are the best :)
I love the drafting explanation. Even though you call your ziper sewing technique lazy, I think is very clever, especially to avoid using the dreadful invisible zipers...
Thank you Belinda! I never use invisible zippers anymore, I had too many break on my in my early days and gave up on them!
I'm planning on use it!!
Oh geez, I'm so lost, but you are AMAZING! I am a seamstress, but draft patterns, oh hell no! You have so much talent, love watching you create! Beautiful, just beautiful!
Thank you Brenda!
Side note what eyeshadow is this it's gorgeous on you 😘
Thank you! It's the shade Thrive from the Morphe 25L palette!
Your vintage sewing diaries are great!!! This is no exception! I really enjoyed it 😊🤩😍 I love that you take us through the whole drafting and sewing process. Very inspiring 🤩Thank you so much. The end result is beautiful, and I love the bold jungle print!!! 🌺🌿🌴🌸
I hope you find time for more of these kinds of videos in the future... 🧵
Thank you Rebekka!
I learned so much about drafting just by watching your videos
Thank you! I love to hear that
I could listen to you do sewing videos all day. Thanks for this!
Thank you Kelly!
Gorgeous! I’ve been binge watching your every process. I need the inspiration to start on my projects and you have been my life saver- thank you for your fantastic videos! You do a great job!
Thank you Belkis!
Do i ever like that all in one sleeve. I have many Japanese sewing book patterns that seem to usually use this sleeve. I love it. I also want to start drafting up my bodice block to my own measurements and make my own designs, back to school this week, i might take a go at it ! Thanks for your amazing inspiration! ❤️
'do our slashing and spreading' said the serial killer duo. I may have been watching too much Criminal Minds. You are fabulously interesting and informative and watching your lovely self talk through things makes me feel like I am Learning All The Things about patterns that I need as a vintage leaning, large boobed woman.
Thank you!
I love these videos so much. I think they're so informative and it's so exciting to see how you change standard pieces and make them so interesting! I like it when you say we, it makes me feel like the audience is part of the journey! And if I ever decide to follow your work and make my own, then we will be doing it with you :)
Thank you! Indeed I hope one day people will perhaps try out the modifications so I slip into we ;)
Another well thought out, articulate tutorial chica! Always a joy to watch someone work on a project that they clearly love doing!
Great fabric for this dress too! Thanks for sharing! X
Thank you Jo!
I love these videos so much! Thank you so much for filming your process.
They are so inspirational and motivate me to get more experienced in sewing. I just love all how authentic your creations look and I would wear every one of them.
Thank you!
I am loving these sewing videos. Thank you!!!
Thank you Kimbra!
Hi Bianca!
I enjoyed following along with your creative process. Very interesting.
This is a great series.
Thank you Darnelle!
I enjoy your casual easy way of sewing. Easy going., Like your personality.
Thank you!
Loved the dress. Your voice is so pleasant to listen to. Also, LOVED the music!!
Thank you Kathy!
Stunning! Looooooove this dress! And the make up and hair clip looked perfect with it👌
Thank you!
The dress is awesome just as the green one is too. Must talk about your make up. Holy smokes, so lovely. Makes your hair and eyes look so brown. I have green eyes and they are pretty light so I could never pull of such a bright style. You look gorgeous.
Thank you! Light green eyes sound gorgeous to me! Mine are quite hazel close up, it depends on the colors around them, when I cry and my eyes are all red they can look quite green.
Your skills with make up is tremendous. I know you say you're just playing around but skills girl. I'm old so i play it safe. I'm a purple shade girl. I do love red lips and nails
it's a beautiful dress even with the cut corners.
Thank you Nathalie!
Love your sharing. Fits and looks so lovely! Huge fan. I don't understand the dart manipulation yet.
Fantastic video. Mind you you may as well have been explaining how to build a space station as a pattern to me, but the end product is beautiful. I got lost at the moving of the darts lol!!!!
Thank you Nancy! But the swinging of the darts is the most fun part! ;)
It looks great! Thanks for sharing the tips on strengthening the underarm on this sleeve style.
Thank you Alex!
Great video with wonderful explanations throughout. Could you share why you chose to gather rather than pleat the shoulders/waist?
Thank you! Mostly because both seem to be equally as common in vintage designs, and I found this quicker. I'm not opposed to doing pleats in a similar design sometime.
I’ve been binge watching and loving them all. Your sewing skills are fabulous. You are such a pretty young woman and the vintage type clothing suits you to a T.
Thank you!
Beautiful fabric, beautiful dress!
Thank you Tamra!
So gorgeous! The material is so cute! And the hair embellishment! Love it!
Thank you!
Really enjoy your beautiful makes and drafting 🤩🤩🤩🤩🙏💖💖
Thank you!
Thank you! You explain it so well!! You give me the confidence to make my own pattern!! It looks beautiful on you!
Thank you Rose!
Gorgeous makeup as always! Love watching how you pattern draft, reminding me how to do it, many years since my fashion degree lol Fab vid as always!! Jxx
Thank you!
The fit is amaaaaazing! Also, the pattern drafting videos are really helpful, actually! I'd love a video about the differences between a slope and a basic block, and how to make them!
Thank you! The main difference between a sloper and a basic bodice block (I use the terms pretty interchangeably its true) is that a true sloper does not include any ease or seam allowance, it is literally supposed to be an exact "second skin" copy of the body or dress form. The block is different because some ease and the seam allowances are included instead. So that's the main difference as far as I know!
TheClosetHistorian Thanks! Very clear!
This is a great dress Bianca!! You are so talented!! I’m not a seamstress by any means but I really enjoy watching and learning about this.
Thank you!
love the finished project, Bianca! Your directions are so clear and easy to follow. You are really inspiring me to make a block pattern and start drafting my own styles. Thank you
Thank you!
I love the sleeve treatment. Unfortunately my days of short sleeves are over. Batwing, however, .....just draw around my arms and hey presto! (Bingo wings!)
I find these so relaxing
Thank you!
Love this. Thank you. I learn so much. 🥰
Thank you!
What sorcery is this?!? 😯 Stunning dress 😍😍😍
Thank you Stella!
Love seeing your thought process - makes me wish I had taken that flat pattern drafting class in collage when I had the chance.
Especially like the idea of the sash not being part of/sewn into the waist seam - allows you to make another in a coordinating color, or use a different color belt. Pure genius lady! Hmmmm - now I want to play with something that could make it truly removable - but I digress...
Great job, beautiful dress! Thank you for the inspiration!
BTW - Congrats on >15K subscribers!! ❤️
Thank you Rose! I wish I had gotten a business degree and taken pattern drafting as an elective instead of getting a fashion degree...but alas I cannot go back!
I loved watching you design and sew this dress. I especially loved the cat substitute, that was perfect. Now I’m heading up to my own sewing room feeling inspired by you. Aloha!
Thank you Brooke! Aloha back :)
I’m new to your channel and have bing watched tons of your videos. I love your style and you have inspired me to get back to my sewing room and make all the things! Thank you for sharing with us all.
Thank you Brandi!
This was a fantastic video as always. Super informative and such a lovely dress! I'm so glad that you're doing more video's like this as they are some of my favorite to watch. :)
Thank you!
1:02:36: "Have a cat while I ramble"...🤣 I'm dying!
What a really pleasant way to spend an hour, thank you so much for sharing this - I learnt so much. Oh, and your kitty is sooooo cute 😍 xx
Thank you! She's the best :)
I really enjoy theese videos! Thank you for making them 💞
Thank you!
YAY thank you for this! i recently stumbled on a hoard of tropical print rayon challis fabrics from the 90s that my grandma just stored and never used, so i'll try and use this as a reference for my much less expert attempts at putting together some 40s dresses. i've recently been in love with this one dress virginia mayo wears in "the best years of our lives" so that will be my first try (it's a solid fabric there but would be amazing in a print too, check it out!). also i'm loving your eyeshadow and lipstick here! it comes together as such a fun vintage look
Thank you! Super score on the fabric! It sounds like you've got some lovely plans :)
Love the shape and the fabric choice
Thank you Jess!
You always do such immaculate work!!
Thank you Debra!
That dress is lovely!!!! Good job!
Thank you!
Would you be willing to show how you do your measuring and pattern drafting for your basic patterns that you use to create your different dress looks? I like the way you do your sewing videos, very user friendly and I can understand everything the way you explain it.
Thank you! I am trying to work out exactly how to do a basic block/sloper drafting tutorial without completely plagiarizing the book I myself use to do so. I always follow the directions from my favorite pattern drafting book, Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Helen Joseph Armstrong, to draft my blocks. I suppose I will just frame it as a how-to-follow her instructions, almost like trying a tutorial or recipe, something in that line.
Really enjoyed watching and loved the finished product!❤
Thank you Dona!
...always enjoy your vids. Looking forward to the next one. I quite like your hair here. 💄 happy happy !!!
Thank you!
Amazing as always! Thank you for spoiling us with such great content.
Thank you Heidi!
Not lazy personal style love your channel.
Thank you Nini!
Love your pattern manipulation videos! Thank you! The dress looks lovely on you, but I agree that the design is lost in the pattern of the fabric. More videos please!☺
Thank you! More coming soon I promise!
Your drawing is so cute (I cannot draw, so I'm always in awe lol). What are the odds that I drafted and am working on a dolman sleeve, too?! I love love love the shoulder gathers and the skirt, so cute!!
Thank you Shilyn!
Talents galore ❤️❤️
Thank you Bridget!
Amazimg girl!!! Would love to see u Make a vintage playsuit next time if not refashion one before summer ends🌊
Thank you!
Very beautiful dress.
Thank you Emi!
Oooo I love the finished product!!! That fabric is amazing. I'm just a sucker for bold florals.
Thank you!
Beautiful, Bianca!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love the dress and I loved the video (cat included 😆) I really need to give it a try
Thank you Stella!
Love this dress! These videos are so inspirational!
Thank you Emma!
This is amazing, you are amazing! I love this fabric and made a play set with simplicity 8654 with it, it looks so beautiful as a dress 😍
Thank you Emma! I'm sure as a play set it is equally darling!
Love your videos! I was wondering what material you use for your main block? Love the black smooth finish.
Gabriela, I think she said she used poster card?
Thank you Gabriela! It is indeed just black poster board from the craft store :)
DESPERATELY waiting for a tutorial on how you make your little short sleeved suit jackets 😫🙌🏼
Lilian Miramontes, Jr. Ooooh yes, I second that! I love the belted safari-style ones, and I always have trouble finding things like that. I work in different locations, some of which have no a/c, so I am always looking for short-sleeved jackets in a linen mix to wear to work in summer. It would be glorious if I could make them myself, because it's so hard to find things to fit just so.
I'm doing one for my last August project (the "your" choice one I mentioned in my planning video) so no worries, it is coming! It will require a few extra steps, that pattern, having to create the princess seam and such, but it is on the schedule!
TheClosetHistorian *doing happy dance!*
Fabulous video: so much interesting and useful content, as always. Loved the music too, very elegant!
Thank you Alix!
Lazy? Nope. You’re very meticulous! Lazy is what I’d do: sketch out the pattern pieces directly on the pattern, cut, sew! That’s if it’s for myself of course, when I designed I did actually make “real” pattern pieces. You would laugh at all the clothing I’ve made this way, now used as pattern pieces after they “died”😆! You did a beautiful job, it came out perfect & looks gorgeous! Have a lovely weekend! Jet 🧡🎸🎶⚡️
Thank you Jet! And hey, if it works, it works I say! ;)
TheClosetHistorian - Duh I meant to say directly on the fabric! J. 😘🧡
Please understand that we do not notice any extremist details such as things on cutting on boards. Love what you are doing.
Ha thank you! ;)
Beautifully explained and this dress is gorgeous! I lobe it! TFC. Christine 😎🇨🇦😎
Thank you Christine!
Wow! That is beautiful!
Thank you!
Thanks for this video. I learned a lot.
Thank you!
Pattern lab london will make a custom block for individuals, it takes a while to enter all the measurements but well worth it.
That sounds quite useful indeed!
I really really like this video you explained it in good detail. thanks you
Thank you Allison!
I love your eyeshadow! What brend is it?)
It's beautiful! 😍
Thank you!